Over six episodes, broadcaster and journalist Nikki Tapper speaks to people living and working in Black Communities across the West Midlands to understand how Covid has affected their lives.

A special guest on this weeks episode of Covid Conversations is Reverend Eve Pitt from Holy Trinity Church in Birchfield. Eve has officiated at 33 funerals since April and she speaks to our host Nikki Tapper about bereavement and grief and the impacts of Covid-19 on black communities in Birmingham. Nikki also speaks to Veronica Brown from Wolverhampton, who sadly lost her sister to the virus earlier this year and her experiences of loss under lockdown .

You can hear the latest episodes on-line and on radio each Wednesday afternoon between 12 and 1pm on the Mid-Morning Conversation show on NewStyle radio 98.7 FM - www.newstyleradio.co.uk .

These podcasts are created by The Red Earth Collective with the support of Heart of England Foundation.